Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take that great original cliche--Elvis as angry, pissed-at-the-world enigma. It dogged Costello for much of his early career and still somewhat haunts him today. He really has no one to blame for it but himself. Elvis first made his move during the late '70s, an epochal time for rock, with the Sex Pistols pointing their diabolical fingers at a vulnerable rock world and shaking it out of its mid-'70s doldrums. Although Costello was never really a part of the Pistols' punk movement, he found a comfortable niche anyway, "surfing" on the new wave...
...telephone ringing or a door slamming, she did not respond to subtler noises. A standard hearing aid was recommended, but Kam refused to wear it, relying instead on lipreading. Eventually, she graduated from college, married a lawyer from Long Island, N.Y., and resigned herself to being an "audiological enigma...
...gonorrhea do far more damage. But few modern ailments have altered so much basic behavior so quickly. Perhaps the reason is its sudden upsurge and incurability. As many family doctors put it: "It won't kill you, but you won't kill it either." "Herpes is a puzzle, an enigma," says Dr. John Grossman, a Washington, D.C., gynecologist. "The medical community doesn't do very well with viruses anyway, and with this one, our bodies aren't able to give us any assistance in killing it." All by itself, says New York Group Therapist Dominick Riccio, herpes has changed...
Silences are Lachow's strong point, the currency which proves this is no amateur mess of enigma but a clearly thought out puzzle to decipher. The gaps in a script which at times seem one big gap do not interfere with the production's authoritative, screne flow towards a goal that, though a mystery to the watcher, clearly exists for those on stage. All but the most sophisticated audiences--say, those who have read Buchner and his theories and went to see Lachow's earlier Woyzeck on Exhibit at the Ex--may find themselves frustrated if they try to guess...
Boys and girls together? Not in Baltimore, not in the late '50s. The two sexes were different species then, speaking different languages, eyeing each other warily through a chain-link fence of chromosomes. For guys, girls were the ideal, the adversary, the enigma. Who knows what they want? Marriage, maybe, but not sex. This made courtship a frustrating series of skirmishes that could end only in conquest or stalemate, never détente. Who knows how to talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies...